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Researchers Use AI to Help Earbud Users Mute Background Noise - Ep. 180

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Can AirPods Can't Do This?

With active noise cancellation, you can just cancel everything. Whereas with speech enhancement, you need to selectively cancel the noise while still sending my voice through. Right now when you use AirPods, even though you have a microphone on each side of your head, it's actually only using one side. This is currently a limitation in the Bluetooth standard. And so we had to develop our own Bluetooth protocol which could stream time synchronized microphone data from both of your AirPods ClearBuds into the phone. Using deep learning, we can outperform traditional signal processing methods such as beamforming used in headsets.

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